Griggs courier., 1887-05-20

Another dawn with fairer light,
While watche . whisper through the night
There comes time when wo grow old.
3F.fs W FLoRus B. PLYMlToA.
T, i1-.l
SHERMAN AND LEE
The current number of the North
American Review contains an elaborate
article by General William 7. Sherman
: In the nature of a reply to General
+. Lord Wolseley's article in Macmillan's
Magazine Of q few months since, very
full abstract of which was cabled from
London at the time of its publication.
Cen. Sherman takes for the text Of his
paper the following extract from Cen
eral Wolseley' q article: a.. .,s5g,,,
VI; When all the angry feelings reused By: g.
session are burisd with those which exilted
when the Declarationyo 81 Independe was
written, when Amer itdns can feviewi. the
history Of their last great rebsllon with
nit that General Lee ssr lowered fs far al above ali al
men on either side Of the struggle. I believe
he will be regarded, not only as the most
4 prominent figure Of the Confederacy, but as
the great American Of the Nineteeth Cen
wh wa ts Sse w..sas
ton, and whose memory is equally worthy
to be enshrined in the hearts Of all his
oountrymen.
Concerning this General Sherman
says:
g As I happen to be one Of the very
: tew survivors Of the great civil war in
America who had a personal and pro-
\ fsssional acquaintance with the chief
actors in that grand drama, I am COM
PEELED to join issue with General Wolse-
Icy in his conclusion, while willing to
admit nearly all his premises. Though
he is much my junior in years. I enter
tain for him the highest respect and ad-
miration; he has deservedly gained
fame by deeds here in America, in
South Africa. Egypt and in Great
! Britian. His estimate of the men
whom he has met in life will command
large attention, but I trust his jndg-
ment in this case will not be accepted
by the military world as conclusive and
final. In all wars, in all controversies,
) there are two sides and the old Roman
maxim applies, "Audi alteroz's partens." I"
"a A FEW MEASUREMENTS.
We all admit that General Robert e,
/ Lee was, in the highest acceptation Of
the term. ..a gentleman and a soldier"
He did not graduate at the head of his
class at West Point, as stated by Gener-
al Wolseley, for "Cullum's Register
shows that Charles Mason, Of New
York, afterwards of Iowa, was No. /
of the date of 1929; that Robert E. Lee.
of Virginia. was No. 2. and that Joseph
e. johnson, also of Virginia, was No.
Is in that class of forty-six members.
Lee was very handsome in person. gem
tie and dignified in manner, cool and
self-possessed in the midst of confusion
and battle, not seeking strife, but equal
to it when it came and the very type of
!: manhood which would impress itself
on the young enthusiast. General
Wolseley. That special phase Of his
character, which General Wolseley
thinks a weakness" his invariable sub
mission to the President of the South
>ern Confederacy, is probably better UNI
derstood on this than the other side of
the Atlantic, where from childhood to
manhood is impressed on us the old
fundamental doctrine that the pen is
mightier than the sword and that the
military must be subordinate to the
civil authority.
General Lee was typical American
and knew that the Southern States
could only succeed in forming an inde-
pendent nation by united action under
Q president armed with both military
and civil functions and he was unques-
donably right in subordinating his con-
duct to the head Of the government
which he had chosen and undertaken
70 support and defend. - =
There was fair election In November,
1860. for president under that consti-
tuition. The Southern people freely
participated in that election. After
they were fairly beaten and Abraham
Lincoln. Of illinois, was duly elected.
some of the Southern leaders, delving
d hack into tha old ahatractions ~ 177R.